So rarely do I blog...I mean RARELY. But every now and again something comes across my "radar" and I muster up enough energy to make a post. With that said - today must be special. Why?? Technologically nestled between an email from Allstate (notifying me of my insurance cancellation) and an email from Papa Johns (some special for 5 bucks) - the universe decides to send me this video from Fuze the MC. Now I won't go into the details of the email, but let me say this..."Fuze, I was on to you over a year ago!!" Don't believe me?? Click HERE. To the rest of the people reading this post...THIS is why I love Hip Hop.

The Masked villain meets the Brooklyn hero with MA_Doom. Together they spawn The Son Of Yvonne. This project is about to be straight Fuego. I plan on banging this so hard my eardrums bleed. In fact, I'm so hyped right now I'm pre petitioning this for album of the year so far... this year. Who wants to Co-sign?

Kansas hasn't historically been known for it's repping as
much as it's know for uhhh.. Native American tribes and uhh.. Bo
Jackson? More recently though XV has been putting it on for the 316.
Here he drops a free verse over Doctor Dre's Recipe beat, originally
made for Kendrick Lamar.

After a brief hiatus due my boys birth and the seemingly never-ending onslaught of feedings, screamings and putting of heads to bed. I'm just happy to have my headphones back on. I'm even happier to have Lyriciss as the inaugural blog back. It's just good to be here in the sphere. Cop the mixtape over at DJ Booth.

The Accomplices (BroadNMarket and The Jake) initiate the build up to their latest project, the 10-90 EP, with "The Burner." Featuring Guilty Simpson, Damien Randle, D. Rose, TWICE, and MaG, the Northeast beat crew show their mettle with hard-driving knock underlining a mind-altering vocal sample. The 10-90 EP, presented by DJ Booth and the Wanderer Clothing, arrives next Wednesday, June 6.

Grumpy Old Men on the track, Slot-A on the beat. This ridiculously fresh track is off of Grumpy Old Men's latest album entitled #FreeLunch. I'm still trying to figure out what cartoon is on the TV that's randomly playing in the background when they are driving. I think it's Aladdin, but not positive.

Hall Pass Post: I know I'm a little late on this one, but it's too dope to pass up. Miami FL's QuEStdropped this video to his track Gambler a few weeks back. The Mt. Eden produced track is a beast. You can cop it from his latest album release entitled Fear Not Failure.

In such a saturated world of music, it's really hard to find new music that is unique and truly inspiring. The ultimate goal is to have that "ah ha" moment once you hit play. I randomly started listening to this project on track 4 "The Cha$e". AH HA! Unique, inspiring, different, fresh, new... all words that came to mind as the album played. Such a great project. Cello Kid is the truth. Listen to this from top to bottom. You're welcome...

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

15 year old producer BasiC just released his latest creation simply titled 2. This is an instrumental project with a few features from the ASF crew. Try to listen to this and not think about the fact that BasiC isn't even old enough to have a drivers license yet. I bet you can't do it. (laughs) Pretty crazy...

Brooklyn rapper One Dae debuts Time Lapse, the inaugural release off his recently formed DAELIGHT imprint. The extended play release captures Dae's progressive flow over the thick, sample-heavy sounds of the German-based production team, The Mindfeederz. The title is in reference to Dae's return from his four year hiatus of releasing full length projects. Rest assured, your man Dae won't be taking another sabbatical anytime soon as Time Lapse serves as a spring board to prepare us for the launch of his debut album Daes & Times, which at long last is nearing fruition and will be released before year's end. Daes & Times includes guests features from the likes of Sean Price, Evidence and C-Rayz Walz and boasts production from M-Phazes, Domingo, Marco Polo and Ayatollah, among others. Check out the full project below.

Just got a new joint from the Span Phly camp. This joint is the first single off the Spy vs. Spy 4 EP which is due out next month. Span gets some help from Judgement of The Society of Invisibles (TSOI) and the track is produced by Lost Perception.

<a href="http://spanphly.bandcamp.com/track/the-world-is-not-enough-feat-judgement">The World is Not Enough Feat. Judgement by SPAN PHLY</a>

“Deep River is a song that was sung back in the plantation days, where blacks sung to deliver messages. It was like their newspaper, they would talk to each other in the fields – that’s what my father used to tell me. He would say, ‘They would sing a song and if it was bad news they would sing it in a torturing way. If it was good news they would make it happy’. Talking about, ‘I want to cross over into campground’. Campground was free country. Everybody wanna be free.” - Bobby Womack

"Medusa is about life situations that leave us immobilized; and women who make it difficult to love. While working on our debut album "The Sunset LP" we often times get side tracked and distracted, as is the nature of creative arts, Medusa is the outcome those random thoughts and unforgettable life experiences." - Sound FX

Atlanta based artist Sever presents the Death of Streetwear mural, taking a shot at some of the most prominent names in the market. Featured in the mural are logos by The Hundreds, Mishka, Stussy, XLarge and Bape.

Gotye's Somebody That I Used To Know has been a sampling favorite for a lot of indie hip hoppers as of late. With that said Dom McLennon took his turn at it. In all honesty I thought I had heard every possible way this sample could be flipped. So how could this be any different than the rest right? I was wrong. It turned out dope. It's not easy to use Goyte's sample and make it sound fresh and new, but Dom did it. Go ahead and check it out while I try to figure out how to cure the worlds worst hang over.

Singing legend Bobby Womack teams up with Lana Del Rey for his latest single entitled Dayglo Reflection. This track is set to be release on his up coming album The Bravest Man In The Universe. If you missed our recent write up on Bobby and his up coming album you can check it out HERE.

For the past 2 months, indie developers Lunar Giant Studios have been working on a video game that would effectively encompass Random, aka Mega Ran's main loves: education, hip-hop, and Mega Man. So here it is, version 1 of Mega Ran in Language Arts.

Beating this difficult game will get a new song unlocked that will serve as the piece between Random's Language Arts Volume 1 and 2 projects, with Vol 2 releasing in August.

When the game released, so did it's soundtrack, executive produced by Ran's DJ, Mel "DN3" Raymond, who put together chip-tune 8-bit hip-hop joints, some with lyrics, some without, and featuring folks like Random, Roqy Tyraid, and more.

&lt;p&gt;&amp;amp;amp;lt;a href="http://djdn3.bandcamp.com/album/mega-ran-in-language-arts-the-official-video-game-soundtrack"&amp;amp;amp;gt;Mega Ran In Language Arts - The Official Video Game Soundtrack by DJ DN³&amp;amp;amp;lt;/a&amp;amp;amp;gt;&lt;/p&gt;

Karmaloop Music & Rocksmith partner with legendary Philadelphia rapper Freeway on the release of the Freedom of Speech project. Freedom features all new original songs exclusive to this project. The second video of the release is the soulful "Let you know," produced by Thelonious Martin

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

"In the spirit of fun here is our take on A$AP Rocky's "Purple Swag". The beat is produced by Jim-E Stack (@Jimestack1). We blended Mike Jones "Still Tipping" together with the track in order to enhance the feel of the song and capture the chopped and screwed vibe. We will be releasing a lot of new music this coming week. Look out for the The Sunset LP, coming soon..." - Sound FX

After five years and breaking one million YouTube hits, FearceVill of Seattle's Dyme Def unearths the standout single "Let It Be," off their debut releaseSpace Music. Produced by crew member BeanOne, which barrows from the classic Beatles record of the same title, the video details Fearce's struggle with his abusive childhood, estranged father, love, infidelity, success and health as it concludes with the realization that he's become his own enemy. Stay tuned for FearceVill and BeanOne's forthcoming free release,There Goes The Neighborhood.

Jazz/ Neo-soul vocalist Lili K has teamed up with bubbling producer Thelonious Martin on her latest track 'Come In'. Fresh off of the release of his latest beat tape 'Colors', Martin's collaboration with Lili only seems right. The pairing of these two soulful individuals has produced this intimate and sultry track that will be placed in heavy rotation amongst soul lovers. Reminiscent of early Jill Scott, Lili's story telling ability placed over the stirring guitar sample is something that you'll want to put on repeat.

I got a chance to chop it up with Von Pea and Donwill of Tanya Morgan this weekend on their Tempe AZ stop of the Dirty Angels tour. We had a convo about hip hop, being on tour, and chicken & waffles... (laughs) No joke... Von Pea was about to hit the Waffle House after the show. I told him to skip that and hit up LoLo's chicken & waffles. It's a sin to be in Phoenix and not stop by LoLo's. So they did... (more laughs). Tanya Morgan are good people for real. They rocked the hell out of the Tempe show to say the least. This joint is off their latest You & What Army project. Hit the jump to check it out.

Got a chance to see Playdough perform last night on his Tempe stop of the Dirty Angels tour. Super dope performer that can spit off the top with the best of em. This is his latest visual to his track No Angel.

Saturday, May 19, 2012

I hate to admit it, but if a song/video doesn't spark my interest within the first 10 to 15 seconds then I'm on to the next one. It's a bad habit, I know, but it's honestly not easy to get through all the content that comes through in a day. So why waste any time right? As I came across this video, I'm not gonna lie, I was skeptical. I had never heard of N.VS before today and my expectations had been thrown out the door with the last three unknowns I checked out. I hit play ready to give it the typical 10 second scan and move on. Surprisingly, the next thing I know I'm hooked. The whole thing is dope. I can never pass up a crafty beat partnered by witty word play. On top of that the video production is top notch. A+ all around in my book. If you want to check out more from N.VS you can catch him on his latest collab effort on the Fangtshidaalbum.

Straight out of Salt Lake City Utah... Dopethought and Worth just dropped off their latest entitled We Our Environment. This project has a really dope vibe to it. Indie hip hop at it's best... check it out.

So here I am again…fresh off my 9th cigarette of the day and surrounded by the sweet sounds of Sherryl Crow…Oh what to do at 10:35 in the morning??...I KNOW…post some Hip Hop on my Hip Hop blog for all the Hip Hop heads. Nah…that’s boring. Fuck them and fuck me. Might as well search for some non-existent enlightenment on FB…Spam…spam…whack ass show…hating facebook…spam. Check email instead…spam…spam…hate spam…post to facebook about hating spam…lady I work with won’t shut the fuck up!!!...”Sheesh”…life is hard…read email that reads: “Hey man, bad link, thanks for the post…(16 seconds passes by)… Fuck…I forgot that my homie Diles has this mixtape he’s probably working his ass off putting together. We chatted on IM about pushing this for him and now the ball is in my court…Well homie…GAME ON!!!! Peep the album, surf the links, and kiss my Cons Lebron James…

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